Thursday, October 11th

Sustainable Futures: "Geopolitics of Overconsumption"

Time:5:30 pm-7:00 pm

Description:

As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Dr. Corey Johnson will present “Geopolitics of Overconsumption.”

Corey Johnson is an assistant professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Corey’s research and teaching areas include the political geography of Europe and Eurasia, borders and border security, natural resources and energy geopolitics, and Germany. In 2011-12 he was the Joachim Herz Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, D.C., where he worked on an international collaborative report entitled "The Global Resource Nexus: The Struggles for Land, Energy, Food, Water, and Minerals." Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Corey holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oregon and a B.A. in geography (honors) and German from the University of Kansas.

The Sustainable Futures Speaker Series is presented by the Environment & Community Graduate Program and the Schatz Energy Research Center.